The Einstein Prize is a biennial prize, awarded by the American Physical Society

American Physical Society

The American Physical Society is the world's second largest organization of physicists, behind the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. The Society publishes more than a dozen scientific journals, including the world renowned Physical Review and Physical Review Letters, and organizes more than 20...

 since 2003. The recipient is chosen for "outstanding accomplishments in the field of gravitational physics". The prize is named after Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and one of the most prolific intellects in human history...

 (1879-1955), who authored the theories of special

Special relativity

Special relativity is the physical theory of measurement in an inertial frame of reference proposed in 1905 by Albert Einstein in the paper "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies".It generalizes Galileo's...

 and general relativity

General relativity

General relativity or the general theory of relativity is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1916. It is the current description of gravitation in modern physics...

. The prize was established by the Topical Group on Gravitation at the start of 1999. Presently for 2007 the prize is valued at $10,000.

Recipients

• 2011: Ezra Ted Newman
• 2009: James Hartle
  James Hartle
  James Burkett Hartle is an American physicist. He has been a professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara since 1966, and he is currently a member of the external faculty of the Santa Fe Institute...
  
  
• 2007: Rainer Weiss
  Rainer Weiss
  Rainer Weiss is professor of physics emeritus at MIT.- Early life and education :Weiss was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1932. Fleeing political unrest, his family moved first to Prague, in late 1932, and then to the United States, in 1938; his youth was spent in New York City, where he attended...
  
   and Ronald Drever
  Ronald Drever
  Ron Drever is a Scottish physicist. He is currently a Professor Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology.Among other accomplishments he co-founded the LIGO project, and was a co-inventor of the Pound-Drever-Hall technique for laser stabilisation....
  
  
• 2005: Bryce DeWitt
  Bryce DeWitt
  Bryce Seligman DeWitt was a theoretical physicist renowned for advancing gravity and field theories.-Biography:...
  
  
• 2003: John A. Wheeler and Peter G. Bergmann

See also

• Albert Einstein Award
  Albert Einstein Award
  The Albert Einstein Award was an award in theoretical physics that was established to recognize high achievement in the natural sciences. It was endowed by the Lewis and Rosa Strauss Memorial Fund in honor of Albert Einstein's 70th birthday...
  
  , (Lewis and Rosa Strauss Memorial Fund)
• Albert Einstein Medal
  Albert Einstein Medal
  The Albert Einstein Medal is an award presented by the Albert Einstein Society in Bern. First given in 1979, the award is presented to people who have "rendered outstanding services" in connection with Albert Einstein each year.- Recipients :...
  
  , (Albert Einstein Society, Bern)
• Albert Einstein World Award of Science
  Albert Einstein World Award of Science
  The Albert Einstein World Award for Science is a yearly award given by the World Cultural Council "as a means of recognition, and as an incentive to scientific and technological research and development", with special consideration for researches which "have brought true benefit and well being to...
  
  , (World Cultural Council)

External links

• Einstein Prize, American Physical Society